NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILY MORTIMER, BILL NIGHY, AND PATRICIA CLARKSON
Short-listed for the Booker Prize
“A beautiful book, a perfect little gem.” — BBCKaleidoscope
“A marvelously piercing fiction.” —Times Literary Supplement
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop — the only bookshop — in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors’ lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence’s warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn’t always a town that wants one.
This new edition features an introduction by David Nicholls, author ofOne Day.
A marvelously piercing fiction (Times Literary Supplement), shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Featuring an introduction by David Nicholls.
“Belongs in the first flight of English novelists writing today.” —Boston Globe
“A marvelously piercing fiction.” —Times Literary Supplement
PENELOPE FITZGERALD (1916–2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction forThe Blue Flower,the Booker Prize forOffshore,and three of her novels —The Bookshop,The Gate of Angels,andThe Beginning of Spring— were short-listed for the Booker Prize.
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